Thursday, February 10, 2011

One Good Turn Deserves Another: Giveaway Time!

This stack of giveaway goodness arrived at my house the other day, courtesy of Kristie at OCD and Fresh Squeezed Fabrics. I won a gift certificate to Fresh Squeezed by correctly guessing Kristie's age. Brave of her to let us try, wasn't it? I snagged some Meadowsweet 2 (a collection I mostly missed when it came out), plus that groovy print on top. Randi from Fresh Squeezed was super nice and got my fabric to me lightning fast. Fresh Squeezed has fantastic prices on Greenfield Hill bundles, including the voiles. Yummy!

So thank you, Kristie and Randi. And everybody knows that when you win a giveaway, you should appease the giveaway gods by offering one of your own, right? Plus, I recently surpassed 200 followers. Yep, it's giveaway time.

So I've got a collection of Wonderland fat-eighths here. Who wants 'em? Anybody? There are scissors in there! And butterflies!

To win, just leave me a comment telling me your favorite fabric line. And I would love to hear about lines that I may NOT have seen a million times all over blogland. I adore Denyse Schmidt and Momo as much as the next girl, and they deserve all the attention they get. But I also want to seek out the under-appreciated little guys. What lines or designers do you think are undiscovered? Aren't getting the attention they deserve?

I'll draw a winner on Valentine's Day morning. Nothing like a little fabric love to start your holiday off right. Good luck!

P.S. Voting starts today for the Gen X Quilters Love Nest Quilt Contest. Head over there to check out some beautiful bed-size quilts and vote for your favorite. My Single Girl is vying for the title—I'd love it if you would cast a vote for her. : )

I personally Love Laura Gunn! I know her prints are large, but they are so sophisticated. I love the new Magnolia Lane line. She's incorporated some smaller florals and a plaid. The colors are lucious.

I really loved working with Sandi Henderson's Meadowsweet...orange flowers on browns...great fabrics. I also really love Amy Butler's Lacework fabric. I've used both of these for handbags...not sure they'd do well in a quilt...but they were adorable bags!

I love everything by Dena Designs....she has a beautiful blog and a lot of talent! Currently you could look at Kumari Garden or Leanika (from last year)....just amazing! Thanks for the chance to enter....

I've been oogling Journeys by Kathy Davis in my LQS since the day I set foot in their store (new to the area, but leaving already). I finally had a reason to pick some up the other day when my mom asked me to make a table runner for her. Beautiful purples and blues and I just love the Dragonfly Dance fabric in purple.

Congrats on your giveaway win and thank you so much for doing a giveaway of your own. :)

I really love Neptune and now Parisville - amazingly rich colors and tiny unexpected details. I also think Urban Couture is amazing a breakthrough line for Basic Grey. I just discovered some fabrics from Prints Charming, an Australian company, that I purchased from The Quilted Castle - it is so soft and beautiful. Can't wait to see what else they come up with! Thanks for the giveaway!

I really love Valori Wells' Delhi collection. They are so much more beautiful in person! The butterfly print is so great and I adore the big, fluffy mums (they're mums right? I don't know my flowers). It's good stuff and getting harder to find.

I also really love Tina Givens. Her fabrics don't always appeal to me on their own, but because of the rich and vibrant colors, always look stunning put together in a quilt. Really, really good stuff.

I'm all about Central Park and Robert Kaufman's Modern Living right now. Trying to restrain myself! I love Parisville and basically anything Tula Pink.I know - these are all over blogland - what can I say, I'm a lemming. ;)

I'm totally in love with Saffron Craig's Forest Elements and Owls. Wish they were in my fabric budget! But, then again, even if they were I love them so much I'd probably be to scared to cut into them! I'd just stare at their loveliness and try to dream up a project worthy of them.

I am a big fan of Lauren & Jessi Jung (created Hideaway, my current obsession). Not really sure if they are "discovered" or not... They are a cute little mom-daughter pair, and they have such great patterns that they design to go along with their fabric!

Oooh, I do love me some MoMo Wonderland--I have a wee little stash of it, and would love to add to it--then I might actually have enough for a quilt!!

But one of the unsung heroes I think has been Joel Dewberry. I've loved each of his lines, and each new one perhaps a little more than the ones previous. Modern Meadow has such a great palette, a mix of brights and neutrals, and some really gorgeous prints. I'll admit it, I'm hoarding!

You've probably seen this a bazillion times in blog land but I am totally in LOVE with Moda Central Park by Kate Spain! Did you know you can buy matching plates at Crate & Barrel? How cool. Thanks for the giveaway and I always enjoy Work in Progress Wednesday :D

Well I just went to the Fabric Depot in Portland, Oregon and found a huge loft of lines that I just never heard of but may have seen surfing on the web. I'm in love with Kate Spains's new Central Park. I guess if it's the small designers it's Sherbet Pips by Aneela Hoey. Ugh - how about Valori Wells in my part of the world. Anne Kelle Hmmmmm

I love Heather Mulder Peterson as a designer--my LQS carries Henry Glass fabric and I seem to keep picking up her designs (see: my sliced coins quilt, which I didn't realize was HMP until I'd unfolded what I bought!).

You know, they aren't "cool" but I love the 1930's reproduction fabric. Some are WAY too sugary-cute, but many have the same feel as the much loved Katie Jump Rope line or the Japanese fairy tale fabric.

Laura Gunn has some great lines inspired by her art. I have to like her stuff because I went to HS with her husband and was roommates at college with her sister-in-law. My small claim to borrowed fame. :)

Thanks for the chance to win! I have been waffling about buying this line for months. Love it.

Thanks for the awesome giveaway and congrats on over 200 followers! One of my favorite designers is Patricia Bravo. Her fabrics are gorgeous. Not really undiscovered, but not mentioned nearly as often as Denyse!

My favorite line of fabrics is the old school floral Liberty lawns. I had so many baby dresses from them as a little girl and my mum started a grandmother's flower garden from yardage she picked up on trips to London. So it's a very nostalgic range as well as uber pretty!

I have so many favorites! I love Old sheets and pillowcases for fabric but designers I love Anna Maria Horner, and Liberty - one that might not be as well known is Tina Givens Chloe's Imagination - love the ladybugs, bumblebees, and exotic birds she uses in a modern way.

I can't say I have an undiscovered fabric line but at the moment I would say I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sandi Henderson Henna Garden. I want it in every color and not just a FQ bundle I want yardage. Now to get my hubby on board with the spending.

I adore Meadowsweet 2, and Wonderland was one of my faves (I made a patchwork long scarf with a charm pack of it and wear it all the time!)I am currently crushing on a line from David Textiles (yeah, I'd never heard of them either) https://www.davidtextilesinc.com/0/890/t/the-grand-tour-by-victoria-and-albert---wholesale-cotton-fabric.aspx?page=1

I'm newish in quilting blog land and new to all the gorgeous fabric lines I've been admiring. My first gaga discovery was American Jane's recess, which, by the time I discovered it, was pretty hard to come by. I've recently fallen in love with Kate Spain and, in particular, her Central Park design.

I really like a lot of the lines from Riley Blake. Hooty Hoot and Penny Lane are a couple of favorites. Also a sucker for Michael Miller fabrics.Thanks for the chance to win!Joannecried2dream@gmail.com

I really love Matisse, which I haven't seen made up alot yet. I also loved Sandy Gervais' valentine lines, Candy Kisses and L'amour. I love pink and red together! I'm really looking forward to seeing her new line Giddy up close!

My favorite new fabric line is Venice by David Textiles House Designer. They have it over at Hawthorne Threads and FabricWorm. I love the books, birds and the bottles, and the little churches are so cute too.

Great giveaway! I mostly do baby and children's blankets and quilts and love Ann Kelle's Urban Zoologie and Remix lines for these. I adore Saffron Craigs fabrics and wish I could afford to buy them all!

I guess I love Sandi Henderson for her Meadowsweet lines but also Kate Spain, Safron Craig and Laurie Wisbrun (her etsy collections are perfect!). And I am a creative consultant for Amanda Herring and right now we are working with Sweet Divinity but I am really excited about Sugar and Spice coming out soon...Thanks for the chance to win some wonderland, I have somehow completely missed it!

I think my absolute favorite lines have been those by designer Lizzy House for Kaufmann fabrics... they're just so playful and fun. I'm really looking forward to her upcoming 1001 Peeps line. Gotta buy yardage of that!

Congrats on your fabric winnings, they look lovely. Now I can't wait to see what you make with it! :) Right now my favorite is probably the Little Folks Voile, I was able to get my hands on some yardage this weekend, and it is even better in person! Or Innocent Crush. That line makes my heart flutter as well. Sorry, they are too original, but they are my favs! :) Thanks for the chance to win and congrats on going over 200 followers. Woohooo! :)

Hello Lee! What a lovely post and super adorable giveaway! I'm sorry but I'm so out of fabric lines, because there isn't any fabric shop here! So you understand how much I enjoy seeing all those fabulous and beautiful fabrics in your posts! It would be 'dream comes true' to win those beauties and to sew something with them!Happy Valentine's and Friend's day! teje.karjalainen@yahoo.gr

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